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Then it was the turn of Riley Smith (Cycling Ulster) and couple of others to have a go, though it was not until about 15km completed that the main breakaway of the day formed.<\/p>\n
And when they got together, they numbered 10, including Irish riders Hugh \u00d3g Mulhearne and Rian McCrystal, both Team Ireland.<\/p>\n
Also there were: Gregory DeBenedetti (Team California), Alex Botha (Hot Tubes), Nathan Riemer (Boulder Junior Cycling), Cormac Nagle (Hot Tubes), Ethan Courson (DDP Elite Cycling), Alex Snider (EF Education-ONTO), Clark LaVoie (Team Velosport) and Noah Wheller (Lee Valley Youth CC).<\/p>\n
They built their advantaged over the peloton to 1:30 by the time they reached the first KOH prime of the day at 49km. However, Gregory DeBenedetti (Team California) lost his place up front after a puncture.<\/p>\n
Mulhearne took the first KOH, from DeBenedetti and Snider. And at the second KOH, Mulhearne again led over the top, this time from Snider and McCrystal.<\/p>\n
The advantage soon reached 2:10, though a significant chase was on from behind, with yellow jersey Glen Gregory Koiv (Team Rauland) getting involved in the work on the front.<\/p>\n
And with 35km to go, the breakaway’s advantage was coming down, to 1:40. It had fallen further, down to just under one minute, with 20km to go.<\/p>\n
And that advantage for the leaders was down to just 30 seconds even before they reached the 10km to go marker. The peloton – with super strong teams in there – had ramped up the pace after the nine men out front.<\/p>\n
However, that chase was not enough and the spoils were taken by the breakaway men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rian McCrystal is in his first Junior Tour of Ireland and it hasn’t taken him long to find…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-541023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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